ArticleOccupational medicine (Oxford, England)2021
Comparing the acute effects of shiftwork on mothers and fathers.
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- Do the Long-Term Cardiometabolic Effects of Night Shift Work Differ Between Men and Women? A 17-Year Cohort Study of the U.S. Workforce.Safety and health at work · 2026Article
- Influence of Maternal Working Hours on Children's Sleep: A Preliminary Study on Disparities Between Day and Night Shifts.Clocks & sleep · 2025Article
- Association between nonstandard work schedules and employees' self-rated mental health with perceived work stress, work-family conflict and job satisfaction as psychosocial mediators: a national study in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Work hours, weekend working, nonstandard work schedules and sleep quantity and quality: findings from the UK household longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Associations between excessive fatigue and pain, sleep, mental-health and work factors in Norwegian nurses.PloS one · 2023Article
- Physical and mental fatigue in shift work and mitigation strategies: an integrative review.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMTArticle
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Abstract
backgroundShift work may impact women more negatively than men due to the increased burden of coping with demanding work schedules while also undertaking more of the domestic chores, including childcare.
aimsTo examine whether the combination of shift working and caring for children affects the sleep, fatigue and work-family conflict experienced by women more than it affects men.
methodsUsing data from a survey of the Swedish working population, mixed linear regression models examined work schedule (daywork, shift work with nights, shift work without nights), gender and presence of children <13 years at home as predictors of sleep insufficiency, sleep disturbance, fatigue and work-family conflict, over up to three successive measurement occasions. Adjustments were made for age, education, full/part-time working and baseline year.
resultsIn fully adjusted models (N = 8938), shift work was associated with insufficient sleep (P < 0.01), disturbed sleep (P < 0.01), fatigue (P < 0.05) and work-family conflict (P < 0.001). Interactions in the analyses of sleep disturbance (P < 0.001) and work-family interference (P < 0.05) indicated that among participants with no children, females reported more disturbed sleep and more work-family conflict than their male counterparts, irrespective of schedule; while among participants with children, female dayworkers reported more disturbed sleep than their male counterparts, and females working shifts without nights reported more work-family interference.
conclusionsHaving young children did not exacerbate negative effects of shift work, in either men or women. This may reflect high levels of gender equality and childcare provision in Sweden.
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